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Certified granddaddy of japanese space opera science fiction. You can especially see the roots of stuff like 自動戦士ガンダム. It was really hard to grade this difficulty-wise. My copy (which appears to be just totally different than the ebook version on bookwalker?) has furigana which helped a lot, and if you are good at kinda fuzzing out sci fi jargon, then this might not be a terribly terribly hard read? (Except for the one extremely heavy 関西弁 user and the 片言 robot)

There's a lot of war terminolo

Manga that center around the production of music are pretty much always weaker than their anime counterparts, and I don't think this is an exception. Not having the overblown color and lighting effects and not being able to control the dramatic pace of the story timed to music definitely makes it feel like something is missing, but the characters are strong enough to still make this enjoyable coming from watching the show.

It reminds me a little bit of 宇宙よりも遠い場所: four leads who are flawed on th

Easy-ish Language, Horrible Handwriting

I don't quite know how to grade the difficulty of this, honestly. If you're familiar with the later manga series or anime, there are a lot of shared scenes and moments, but there are a few ones that seem to not have made it into the later versions.

Words are largely either "I know this automatically" or "this scribble is too incomprehensible to try to look up even by radicals", making it not all that useful for language learning other than as an exercise in reading bad handwriting.

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